PROPERTY X-RAY
Elimbah · 4516 · Moreton Bay

Elimbah, X‑rayed.

What the suburb is, and what it is becoming. The prices, what is being approved, the crime mix, the schools. By the numbers, then check any address on the street.

Each pin is a real development application near these streets, 36 in the last 12 months. More pins, more change.
Supply & demand · right now

The market reads soft, worth caution.

Buyer signal: caution
For sale now
36
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
2.3%
Stock on market
Within the balanced band of choice for buyers.
to go under offer
30days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 4 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
5
Asking-price cuts
Vendors discounting to shift stock. A classic softening signal.
Source: PXR listings & council parcel records · as at Aug 2026
The counts (listings, stock, cuts) include every property type: houses, townhouses, units, land. Days on market is houses only. Active = listed and not yet delisted. Stock on market = active listings divided by all land parcels in the suburb (parcels are lots, not dwellings, so read it as a proxy).
Buyer-favourable Caution: softening / oversupply
Elimbah in four numbers

What is the median house price in Elimbah? By our own numbers.

Three years of house sales, the development pipeline, and the rent it returns.

House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Jun 2026
$1.3M
Median pace
2026 (11 sales)
PXR sales
As at Jun 2026
8
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
2.7%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

What is being built in Elimbah? You can inspect the house, not the street's future.

Every buyer judges Elimbah as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 36 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 8 Shops, services & community 3 Site works & minor 25
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 8 lots being subdivided · 0 townhouse / multi‑dwelling · hover a dot for the type.

This is the suburb, not your lot. The map shows that change is approved, and roughly where. Which one sits next to the house you are buying, and what it actually means, is in the per‑address report.

Check a specific address →

The use fingerprint

What kind of change is being approved (last 12 months).
Density Industrial Amenity
A densifying suburb. Light on lifestyle amenity.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
8 Lot subdivision
7 Earthworks / site prep
3 Park / recreation
1 New houses
19 of 36 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 3 Aug 2026.
Flood

Does Elimbah flood? It's a street-by-street question.

A suburb-wide flood figure hides the only answer that matters: whether the specific lot you are looking at sits inside a mapped overlay.

Where we're straight with you
We hold the parcel-level flood overlay here.

Flood overlays for Moreton Bay are in our map. The per-lot answer (in or out of the overlay) is on the address report, not a suburb average.

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Crime · the full mix

Is Elimbah safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

202 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Traffic and Related Offences
101
Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
17
Good Order Offences
16
Other Property Damage
14
Arson
11
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
10
Drug Offences
8
Assault
8
Unlawful Entry
6
Weapons Act Offences
3
Other Offences Against the Person
3
Fraud
2
Robbery
1
Miscellaneous Offences
1
Handling Stolen Goods
1
For context, not a verdict

These are recorded offences for the area, grouped by type. We don't grade the suburb. You read the numbers and decide what matters for your street.

QPS crime data current to 3 Aug 2026.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in Elimbah? The people behind the price.

Who owns, who rents, what they earn, and how much land sits under a typical home. The demand signals a suburb average can answer honestly, drawn from the census we hold.

Owner-occupied
89%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Owner-held suburb
Professionals
15%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Median income
$789/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
3,611
a typical parcel here, across 1,567 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
32%
Owned with a loan
56%
Rented
9%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 89% of dwellings in Elimbah. Owner-held pocket, the kind of read buyer's agents weigh for stability.

What people do

Top occupation groups of working residents. A professional weight tends to track stable demand.
Technicians and Trades Workers
17%
Professionals
15%
Labourers
13%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
13%
Managers
12%
Community and Personal Service Workers
11%
Professionals are the largest group at 15% of workers in Elimbah. Professional demographic, a resident base read as resilient.
Source: ABS Census 2021 (tenure, occupation, income) · Lot size from the QLD cadastre ·As at Aug 2026 · Census figures borrowed from the SA2 covering Elimbah.
What this tells you, and what it doesn't

A high owner-occupier share, paired with a professional resident base, is a demand signal: people buy here to live, not to flip. It says nothing about the specific street or block. The per-address report puts these residents next to the exact lot, its zoning and what is being built nearby.

Schools & value

What are the schools like in Elimbah? And what it rents for.

Both pictures side by side, from the latest data we hold.

Schools in Elimbah

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Elimbah State Schoolgovernment · 538 students

Value & yield

House sales in Elimbah, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house onlyAs at Jun 2026
Not enough house sales in 2023 to publish a median. 2 sold.
2024 median house onlyAs at Jun 2026
Not enough house sales in 2024 to publish a median. 3 sold.
2025 median house only (30 sales)As at Jun 2026
$1.2M
2026 median house only (11 sales)As at Jun 2026
$1.3M
3BR house rent (RTA bonds (postcode))As at Aug 2026
$650/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
2.7%
Is Elimbah a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Elimbah.

Straight answers, built from the numbers on this page. We show the data and let you decide. Information only, not advice.

Is Elimbah a good suburb?

Elimbah is one of the busier suburbs in Brisbane's north for development right now, with 36 applications on the council register in the past year. The typical house runs $1.24M, a notch above the Moreton Bay house median. Distance-wise it sits roughly 53 km north of the Brisbane CBD. Flood is a per-lot question here and we hold the parcel overlay, so check the exact address rather than a suburb average. That is the read from the data, not a verdict. The only number that truly counts is the one for the exact address, so check the lot before you fall for the suburb.

What is the median house price in Elimbah?

A typical house in Elimbah sits around $1.24M (2026), a notch above the Moreton Bay house median.

Does Elimbah flood?

Flood risk in Elimbah is a street-by-street question. We hold the parcel-level flood overlay for this council, so the honest answer is at the exact address, not a suburb average. Run an address to see whether a specific lot sits inside a mapped overlay.

Is Elimbah a good place to invest?

Elimbah's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 2.7%, below the Moreton Bay house average of about 3.3%. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Elimbah a safe suburb?

Across Elimbah, police recorded about 202 offences over the last year, most commonly traffic and related offences. The complete mix is on the page. We do not slap a score on it, that judgment is yours.

What is being built in Elimbah?

Elimbah had 36 development applications on the council register in the past year, 19 of them approved. That includes 8 lot subdivisions, a clue to how the streetscape is slowly changing. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.

Now make it about your street

Check any Elimbah address.

Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.

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